The third production of the summer’s Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre season in Chester opens this Friday (July 22).

Shakespeare’s screwball comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona, brought to audiences by the same team behind the outrageous Comedy of Errors and jubilant A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is set to delight a sold out house in the Chester beauty spot.

The relatively rarely staged Two Gentlemen of Verona is Shakespeare’s first play and has been dubbed his most wildly passionate.

Harry Livingstone as Proteus, Hatty Preston as Silvia and Robert Willoughby as Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
Harry Livingstone as Proteus, Hatty Preston as Silvia and Robert Willoughby as Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre

Director Alex Clifton said: “The Two Gentlemen of Verona is our silliest play this season. We’re going to take our wonderful Chester audiences on a riotous joyride to Verona and Milan via the Wilderness – we are very excited!”

Shakespeare’s As You Like It and a new adaptation of the children’s classic Stig of the Dump are also being performed until August 21. Tickets for performances, including matinees, are on sale now find out more at www.grosvenorparkopenairtheatre.co.uk.